Nurul Wahidah
Associate, Portfolio Solutions

Nurul Wahidah is Associate, Portfolio Solutions at The SILC Group. Her main responsibilities include fund administration and operations, investor relations and communications, investor onboarding and payment preparation.
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Nurul joined The SILC Group in 2024. Nurul has experienced working as Fund Accountant at Caceis Investor Services (formerly known as Royal Bank of Canada) that focused on derivatives products. She started her career as a Treasury Executive after she graduated at one of Mercedes Benz dealer companies, Cycle and Carriage Berhad and performed her internship at Malaysia’s largest Oil and Gas company, Petronas Berhad. With all the experiences that she has gained, she has strongly developed a good time management and strengthen her communication skills as she always communicated with the business units and client representatives to ensure operations are carried out efficiently and effectively.
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Nurul graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting from Kuala Lumpur University.

Capital Solutions

The SILC Group is committed to developing and executing targeted capital raising solutions for select investment managers and private fund sponsors, adding notable value at every stage of the fundraising process.

Development and Implementation

The SILC Group is committed to developing and executing targeted capital raising solutions for select investment managers and private fund sponsors, adding notable value at every stage of the fundraising process.

Formulating pre-marketing strategies
Preparation of marketing materials and facilitating roadshows/investor meetings
Liaise with potential investors and coordinate the due diligence process
Competitive positioning and terms negotiations

Distribution

Collectively, our team is able to draw on longstanding relationships cultivated with a diverse set of wholesale and institutional investors, both local and globally.

Drawing on their combined knowledge and experiences, our team is equipped with a deep understanding of various investor appetites and asset allocations – enabling them to provide tactical advice and personalised recommendations for specific potential investors.

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Becoming a client

You must satisfy one of the following:

Product/Service: Be a financial product or service greater than $500,000.
Client: In assessing this, we will consider, Assets of more than $2.5 million; or Income of $250,000 or more per annum in each of the last two financial years.

Independent:

Australian Financial Services Licensees.
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.
Bodies Public Superannuation Fund Trustees.
High Net Worth Individuals.

Sophisticated Investor Eligibility

Under section 761GA of the Corporations Act, clients who are unable to satisfy the above threshold tests may ask The SILC Group as an Australian Financial Services Licensee to certify them as a “sophisticated investor”. However, we must be satisfied that the clients has, amongst other things, sufficient financial literacy and the client must waive their right to certain consumer protections.

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Becoming a client

As a Wholesale Client with The SILC Group, you will have the ability to access

Distinctive investment opportunities.
Alternative funding structures.
Specialised financial services.

We cater for private, commercial or institutional clients.

There are many benefits of being a client with The SILC Group, including:

Service: Tailored exclusive for wholesale clients.
Convenience: Digital platform for all your portfolio needs – MySILC/SILC.Co
Independent: we are not aligned to any provider and therefore focus on the best outcome for the client.

To register as a Wholesale Client and certify that you meet the criteria, please download and complete this form.

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Partner with us

The SILC Group has a holistic approach in providing Wholesale Clients a gateway to financial opportunities.
Why partnerships matter?

Enhance your corporate brand.
Achieve your financial aims.
Gain access to our network of expertise.
Reach your target audience.
Relationship driven & ROI focused.
We believe in Quality, Ownership, Integrity, Flexibility partnerships.

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Trevor Easterbook
Director, Investor Solutions

Trevor Easterbrook is a Director of Investment Solutions at The SILC Group with a core focus on providing financial solutions in direct investments, managed accounts, structured products and boutique alternative assets to wholesale client groups. As his role title suggests, Trevor’s remit is to work with clients to understand and assist in providing investment solutions to maximise the clients risk adjusted investment outcomes.

Trevor has been involved in financial markets for over 25 years specialising in equity derivative and risk management products. Significant roles include 7 years working in Hong Kong for UBS as director of its risk management group covering investment solutions for its institutional and hedge fund client base. Most recently Trevor was a partner at a volatility hedge fund designed to implement cost efficient hedging solutions within investor portfolios. Trevor has a passion for the alternative asset class, quantitative processes and the construction of superior non-correlated investments outcomes for wholesale client investors.

Trevor holds various qualifications including a Bachelor of Business through the University of Technology Sydney, a Master of Applied Finance through FINSIA and is currently undertaking a Master of Forensic Accounting and Financial Crime through Macquarie University.

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Michael Petit
Advisory Board Member

Michael Petit is an Advisory Board Member of The SILC Group providing input and planning into the strategic framework and direction of the business.

Michael’s impressive background includes experience in the Federal public service, international management consulting in productivity (incorporating business analysis, business system design, implementation and post-implementation review), general management of a commercial division of ASX, corporate strategist for NAB, stock broking analyst in a leading Australian stockbroker, senior strategic planner for CBA, as well as investor relations, corporate planning and senior finance roles in leading Australian corporations.

His academic qualifications include a Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Swinburne University of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis on the theory of dominant logic in organisational behaviour won a prestigious award for most distinguished PhD thesis. He has also taught in the MBA programs at Swinburne and RMIT.

In addition to his Advisory Board responsibilities with The SILC Group, Michael operates his own consulting, coaching and training business.

Roland Matrenza
Advisory Board Member

Roland Matrenza is an Advisory Board Member of The SILC Group being involved at a strategic level into the business model and value proposition.

Roland’s Banking and Financial services career spans more than 40 years having held a number of Senior Executive roles at the National Australia Bank Group. Roland’s responsibilities encompassed Group strategy development and strategic planning, Group capital policy and management and investment prioritisation, mergers , acquisitions and divestments, Group performance management , investor relations and government relations, Group corporate affairs and communications, Group program office and strategic portfolio analysis, economics and research, transformational change management and business development and sponsorship of new ventures.

As a Group EGM and a member of the Group Executive Committee, Roland also sat on a number of group decision making and steering committees including Group Capital & Asset and Liability (ALCO), Group Risk Policy, Board and Management Lending Committee, Group Strategy Committee, People Assessment and Talent panel, Wealth Management, E-Commerce and Technology and the Strategic Projects’ Assessment Committee. Roland also served on several Banking Industry committees and was a past Chairman of the Australian Bankers Association Executive Committee.

Roland has considerable directorship and governance experience as a Group Executive and an Executive Director/Chairman on numerous wholly owned NAB subsidiaries in Australia, UK, Ireland and New Zealand Operations comprising commercial banks, superannuation and trustee boards, insurance, credit card, leasing, nominee services, custodial services, funds administration services and health funds processing and administration and the Banking Ombudsman.

Roland’s previous Executive roles included:

Executive General Manager, Group Strategic Development
Executive General Manager, CEO Strategic Projects, Office of the CEO
General Manager, Integrated Planning & Strategic Projects
General Manager, National Australia Group UK, Ireland & Europe
Chief Manager, Investments, Capital Markets and Planning
Chief Manager, Business and Technology Strategy
Senior Economist and various operational roles in Treasury, Retail and Business Banking

Roland holds an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, and Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the AICD and FINSIA and is a graduate of the Transformational Leadership course from the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.

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Chris Tonkin
Specialist Advisor

Chris Tonkin is a Specialist Advisor at The SILC Group within our Corporate and Debt Solutions teams providing strategic project, corporate financing and advisory services to our clients.

Chris is a highly experienced senior business executive with an extensive background in providing financial, management and strategic products, services and advice to industry. He has over 30 years experience and a broad industry background in business generation, management and strategy development. He has a substantial track record in structuring and arranging complex financings for companies and projects, in Australia and internationally, across all major industry sectors and particularly the natural resources, power and telecommunications sectors.

He began his career as a metallurgist and environmental specialist, diversifying into commercial roles at several major industrial companies and subsequently banking and financial services, including project finance, corporate and project advisory roles at AIDC, The Chase Manhattan Bank, KPMG Corporate Finance and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), where he was Executive Director and Head of Natural Resources, Project and Structured Finance.

His qualifications include a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Metallurgy and Chemistry from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Economics and Politics from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA also from the University of Melbourne. Chris is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the Finance and Treasury Association.

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Peter Munns
Specialist Advisor

Peter Munns is a Specialist Advisor at The SILC Group providing strategic corporate financing, structuring and advisory solutions to our corporate and institutional clients.

Peter is a highly experienced lead advisor and financier with over 20 years experience in the Australian markets, covering the upstream energy, power and utilities, infrastructure, resources and sectors. As a specialist in Asian inbound investment, Peter has also developed senior relationships with corporate investors in China, Japan and Korea, as well other jurisdictions.

Peter was until recently a Partner in the M&A team at PwC, and jointly led the National Deals team in Power, Utilities and Infrastructure. He has also worked at senior levels across M&A / corporate finance, project lending and principal investment at ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank in both Melbourne and Sydney, and internally as a tax and finance advisor at Mitsubishi Oil in Tokyo.

Peter has an MBA degree from the International University of Japan and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Newcastle.

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Manan Lodhia
Software Engineer

Manan Lodhia is a Software Engineer at The SILC Group. His role in the team is to develop and maintain The SILC Group’s web products and digital solutions.

As a full stack developer, Manan is a coding and programming specialist with proficiency in PHP, Javascript, Python and Java.

Manan is currently in his final year at RMIT University where he is working towards a Bachelor of Computer Science.

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Market Intelligence

Wholesale Trustee

The SILC Group provides wholesale trustee services to a diverse range of sponsors across a variety of asset classes including private credit, private equity, agriculture, infrastructure, real estate, equities, fixed income and fund of funds. We provide range of funds management and trustee services :

Trustee Services for Wholesale Funds
Fund Administration
Compliance and Risk Governance
Security Trustee and Facility Agent Services
Managed Investment Trust Services

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Corporate Solutions

We develop a detailed and robust corporate strategy that has strong links to financing the essentials for delivering growth and returns to stakeholders. The range of corporate solutions we provide are:

Strategy

We work with our clients to understand their corporate goals and strategies. We do this in the context of financial analysis to assess the required capital structure, impact on earnings and value of the business.

Capital Structure

A detailed strategy can only be successful if linked to the appropriate capital structure. We take the time to understand the strategy to develop and maintain an appropriate and flexible capital structures based on sound financial analysis.

Transactions

If your shareholder value strategy includes corporate actions (acquisitions, divestments or capital raising), our team can provide assistance throughout the process.

Financial Operations

We can guide clients on various aspects of the finance function of their business to identify its strengths and any weaknesses. We can then implement strategies to help monitor the financial health of the business as well as planning for the future.

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Property Solutions

Property Development and Property Management |

We cater interests of stakeholders, ensure the best financial outcome, provide the finest built environment.
& cover total project solutions from research, investment, development to management.

We also provide Property Consultations that include:

Project Feasibility
Financial Assessment
Due Diligence and Risk Management
Value Management and Option Analysis
Advice on master and concept planning
Recommendation and facilitation of introduction to genuine consultants and specialist contractors.
Identification and facilitation of joint venture partners.
Advice on statutory requirements and managing them.